SM>I have to ask Chris.  Where to you find all the space for your ingenious
I don't. Part of the inventive phase (in me) is accepting the
challenge to do something, and just doing it. Once it is done,
the problem solved, it is time to move on to the next problem.
For example, tossing out garbage was getting me down, so indoor
composting was the answer. Then a health-food store asked me
about high-volume processing, so cheap containers (pails) was the
answer. The store lost interest, so now I'm stuck with several
pails. Freezing weather is the problem, so they come indoors.
Space is the problem, so they stack vertically (to four-high) in
the laundry closet. Bin-shuffling is the problem, so now I have
the continuous-feed (sewer-pipe) arrangement, and the laundry-
closet tower is slowly being dismantled for the soil to feed the
pipes. (Have I just developed a pipe digester system that is
actually digesting a pail compost-digesting system? Is this the
first time a compost system has digested another system? ....)
Note that the space that was used by the city-council bin in the
kitchen was freed up when I moved to the balcony, and that space
was freeed when I moved back indoors into the closet, and the 
laundry-space is being freed now that I move back into the 
kitchen ... 
SM>If you can come up with a great watering system for all of these I would
The composters don't need watering, in fact, that would probably
harm them. The glass-container (terrarium) gardens pretty well
look after themselves. The hanging baskets around the bay window
join me in the shower as soon as I spot leaf-wilt ("save space,
shower with a frond" (ugh!)). The experimental geraniums being 
struck in a pot of partcle-foam get a dash of water from the old 
brown teapot every time I fill *it* from the fish-tank prior to 
dousing each of the seedling trays ... 
SM>Back to second hand use.  I make my living through second use.  I have a
SM>small used-book store.  I can't stand the idea of abandoning a good book
(1:250/350
Ahhah. You're just the person I don't want to meet (grin!) since
well-meaning friends give *me* cartons of books that I will read
one day (not!). I have pile sof book-club hard-backs if you'd
like to shelve them; I shan't get around to reading them. OTOH I
have complete shelves of my favorites, such as a Shute shelf, a
shelf of popular history, a shelf of high-school texts and so on.
Where/what is your bookstore? And do you want to come to me next
talk on vermicomposting? It will be held in Aurora.
christopher.greaves@ablelink.org     www.interlog.com/~cgreaves
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